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A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire; Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Translator)
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: The French List Ser.
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Césairerecounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congofollows Lumumba?s efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles ...Show more
A Very Fine Gift and Other Writings on Theory by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an aud ...Show more
Abysses by Pascal Quignard; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: No Category | Series: The\French List Ser.
Prolific essayist, translator, and critic Pascal Quignard has described his Last Kingdom series as something unique. It consists, he says, "neither of philosophical argumentation, nor short learned essays, nor novelistic narration," but comes, rather, from a phase of his work in which the very concept o ...Show more
Hypnos by René Char; Mark Hutchinson (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of literature and a document of unique significance in the history of the French Resistance.Hailed by the poet Paul Eluard as an "absolute masterpiece" upon its first appearance in 1946, René Char's Hypnos is both a remarkable work of litera ...Show more
Sick Planet by Guy Debord; Donald Nicholson-Smith (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
A Sick Planet, written in 1971, is an extremely prescient polemic on global environmental degradation.
Signs and Images - Writings on Art, Cinema and Photography by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an audie ...Show more
Suspended Passion - Interviews by Marguerite Duras; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A controversial figure of the postwar French literary and cultural scene, Marguerite Duras has exerted a powerful hold on readers around the world. This volume of interviews--hailed on its French publication as Duras's "secret confession"--offers readers a rich vein of new insight into her work, opinion ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Edde
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Crime of Jean Genet by Dominique Eddé; Andrew Rubens (Translator); Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: The\French List Ser.
Now in paperback, The Crime of Jean Genet is a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on another and one of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement.Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. "His presence, ...Show more
The Present Hour by Yves Bonnefoy; Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)
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Category: Poetry | Series: The\French List - (Seagull Titles CHUP) Ser.
From the publication of his first book in 1953, Yves Bonnefoy has been considered the most important and influential French poet since World War II. A prolific writer, critic, and translator, Bonnefoy continues to compose groundbreaking new work sixty years later, constantly offering his readers what Pa ...Show more
The 'Scandal' of Marxism and Other Writings on Politics by Roland Barthes; Chris Turner (Translator)
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: The\French List Ser.
A major collection of essays and interviews from an iconic 20th-century philosopher in five volumes, now all available together in paperback. Roland Barthes was a restless, protean thinker. A constant innovator--often as a daring smuggler of ideas from one discipline to another--he first gained an aud ...Show more
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